Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.